You may need cardiac catheterization and angioplasty and stent (interventional procedures) to open a blocked left anterior descending artery. Angioplasty expands the artery, while a stent (tiny wire mesh tube) keeps it open.

2019年8月28日 · But when the LAD isn’t involved, blockage in one or even two of the other coronary arteries usually is treated with balloon angioplasty to widen the artery and placement of a mesh tube called a stent to hold it open.

Stenosis of the proximal left anterior descending artery is regarded with considerable anxiety by patients, physicians, and surgeons alike.

2025年2月11日 · A widow maker heart attack occurs when a blood clot or plaque completely blocks the left anterior descending (LAD) artery, one of the arteries around the heart.

2015年2月11日 · If the LAD disease is determined to be significant then a stent is often used to relieve the blockage. Sometimes bypass surgery is advised, and usually a vessel called the LIMA (left internal mammary artery) is used as the bypass vessel …

2023年6月20日 · Your doctor inserts a stent, a small metal tube made of tiny meshed wires, to help keep your LAD open so that blood can pass through and continue restoring oxygen to your heart muscles.

2025年3月20日 · Stenting is a procedure often used for severe blockages in the LAD. During percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), doctors insert a thin tube, or stent, into the narrowed artery section to keep it open.

2023年5月9日 · Stents help to restore blood flow by providing support to the artery walls and preventing them from collapsing or narrowing again after angioplasty, a procedure used to open blocked arteries. The process of stenting the widowmaker artery, or the LAD, typically involves the following steps:

2017年3月22日 · What are the outcomes of patients undergoing drug-eluting stent (DES) implantation according to lesion location within or outside the proximal left anterior descending (LAD) artery?

Minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass (MIDCAB) surgery and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) are both well-established minimally invasive revascularization strategies in patients with proximal left anterior descending (LAD) lesions.